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BIOINFORMATICS
卷 23, 期 20, 页码 2672-2677出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm405
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Motivation: It is known that most genomic regions of special interest, e. g. horizontally acquired sequences, genomic islands, etc. have distinct word (m-mer) compositions. Most of the earlier work along this direction, addressed di- and tri-nucleotide compositions. We present an approach that can be applied to analyze compositions of any given word size. The method, called the centroid approach, can reveal compositionally distinct regions in genomic sequences for any given word size. Results: We applied our method to 50 bacterial genomes and demonstrated its ability to identify embedded sequences of varying lengths from distantly related organisms. We also investigated the genetic makeup of the regions identified as compositionally distinct by our method, for four organisms from our dataset. Pathogenicity island (PAI) components and genes encoding strain- specific proteins are all frequently seen to be constituents of these regions.
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